After a four-month property hunt, the new owners of
934 Ossington Ave
. snagged the three-storey, five-bedroom detached brick house for $50,000 shy of its most recent asking price and are set to take possession next month. Although they felt badly for the victim, the couple had no qualms about buying the place.

It took multiple listing agents, 16 months and a bit of a discount to sell the so-called “
stigmatized property
” — a blanket term used to describe homes with unfortunate histories that could affect their market potential.

Lanteigne had been living there since 2006, two years after he married Demitry Papasotiriou, a Greece-born Toronto lawyer who co-purchased the house with two elder family members.

The couple had been estranged for some time before the murder, according to friends and police. Lanteigne, a University of Toronto accounting clerk, was living alone at the house.

Last November, more than a year and a half after Lanteigne was killed, police charged Papasotiriou, 33, with first-degree murder. Soon after, a man named Mladen “Michael” Ivezic, 52, was arrested in Greece and also charged with murder.

Police allege Ivezic and Papasotiriou are business associates and have said Papasotiriou was in Switzerland when his husband was murdered.

Papasotiriou, who was named sole beneficiary in Lanteigne’s life insurance policy, filed claims after the murder against two firms that insured his spouse,
seeking the $2-million policy proceeds
, court records show. He is awaiting trial.

The Ossington Ave. house, which sits on a busy stretch of street a few blocks northwest of Christie Pits Park, was originally listed for sale in November 2011, eight months after the murder, with an asking price of $973,000.

Heavily renovated and bathed in old-world luxury, the house has four marble fireplaces imported from Europe, hand-carved crown moldings and a grand oak staircase.

In Ontario, realtors are required under the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act to disclose any “material fact” that could affect the value of a property, including a murder, suicide or suspicious death.

Toronto real estate agent Tony Domingues, who listed the house for sale in February, said he made sure all potential buyers knew about the home’s history,
though there was really no hiding it anyhow — a simple Google search reveals the details.

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